Indeed, it's Brimming with Absurdity, Over-the-Top Hospitality and Psychobabble. Yet I Truly Love Meghan's Holiday Special.

No matter the season, it's constantly hunting season for commentary on the Meghan Markle's Netflix series, With Love, Meghan. Reviewers, both professional and armchair, have hardly ever agreed so completely as when eagerly tearing the program's earlier episodes apart. The common opinion held that a greater royal outrage had never been witnessed than the now-infamous pretzel-bagging incident.

Currently, as a festive rebel, she has returned once again with a "Christmas Special" (or a holiday episode). But this time, things have shifted. The usual elements audiences anticipate – meaningless jargon salads, intense hospitality – persist, but set of a Christmas special, suddenly it all makes sense. The elements have slid into place; it's a perfect snow storm.

By this point, Meghan has become the oddball family member at Christmas celebrations everywhere – dispensing unsolicited, unnecessary advice, and supplying the occasional strange exclamation. ("I love spinach!" … "A tradition has to have a beginning." … "A tree is part of my memory and love of the holiday season.") She's quite a personality, but her presence is familiar and oddly reassuring. And she looks happy enough; she's causing any harm.

She is aware her all subtle gestures, word and look will be dissected and scrutinized, but nonetheless looks unburdened and remarkably at ease.

Maybe this is the initial instance in history where that old chestnut – "Pay no mind, it's only envy" – could actually be true. Because, let's face it, everything in Meghan's Holiday Celebration honestly feels charming. Granted, it's all cringily ultra-extra, nonsense and flamboyant – but isn't that precisely what Yuletide is about? And the words she speaks might be ridiculous, but the walk she's walking appears to be shop-bought.

Whatever she sets her mind to, she pulls off with flair. Her culinary efforts looks scrumptious, the holiday arrangement she crafts is breathtaking, her gifts are almost too pretty to open. Nothing is ordinary or visually unappealing – even the way she secures her kitchen garment is creative and fashionable. She doesn't throw a dish in the oven, it "takes a twirl", and she creases wrapping paper like an origami guru. She also seems to be genuinely relishing herself the entire time. How could any hate-watcher not be convinced, filled with festive joy and left with a powerful yearning for handmade crackers or a crudites platter where broccoli is arranged in the form of a Christmas ring?

Meghan was once an actress for a living, naturally, but nonetheless, after the intensity of attention she has faced since she became involved with Prince Harry, the love child of acting royalty would find it hard to appear this authentically. Her unwillingness to modify or even moderate her shtick, even though it being so persistently, internationally ridiculed, is oddly heartening. In our unpredictable world, here is something we can depend on: Meghan will stay true to form, come what may. We will consistently know our position with her.

If you're not yet convinced by her message, a reminder that will undoubtedly come as a reassurance: you are not obligated to. There isn't mandatory conscription these days, and were it to return, it would be improbable to include watching With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. If, however, you willingly check it out and are overcome with jealousy about her picture-perfect Christmas, all is not lost either. Be you a duchess or a office worker, hardly any child truly appreciates the time and energy their parent does in the holiday season. So you can console yourself by envisioning her children's faces when they reveal a handwritten message that says, 'I love you because you are brave,' from a handcrafted holiday countdown, in place of a chocolate.